Business Description
Cincinnati Bancorp is a federally-chartered corporation that was incorporated
in October 2015 to be the mid-tier stock holding company for Cincinnati Federal
in connection with the mutual holding company reorganization of Cincinnati Federal.
The reorganization was completed on October 14, 2015. CF Mutual Holding Company
is a federally chartered mutual holding company formed in October 2015 to become
the mutual holding company of Cincinnati Bancorp in connection with the mutual
holding company reorganization of Cincinnati Federal. As a mutual holding company,
CF Mutual Holding Company is required by law to own a majority of the voting
stock of Cincinnati Bancorp. CF Mutual Holding Company is not currently, and
at no time has been, an operating company.
Our business consists primarily of taking deposits from the general public
and investing those deposits, together with borrowings and funds generated from
operations, in one- to four-family residential real estate loans, and, to a
lesser extent, nonresidential real estate and multi-family loans, home equity
loans and lines of credit, and construction and land loans. We also invest in
securities, which consist primarily of mortgage-backed securities issued by
U.S. government sponsored entities and Federal Home Loan Bank stock. We offer
a variety of deposit accounts, including checking accounts, savings accounts
and certificate of deposit accounts. We utilize advances from the Federal Home
Loan Bank of Cincinnati (the “FHLB-Cincinnati”) for asset/liability
management purposes and for additional funding for our operations.
Our principal lending activity is originating one- to four-family residential
real estate loans and, to a lesser extent, nonresidential real estate and multi-family
loans, home equity loans and lines of credit, and construction and land loans.
To a much lesser extent, we also originate commercial business loans and consumer
loans. Subject to market conditions and our asset-liability analysis, we expect
to increase our focus on nonresidential real estate and multi-family loans in
an effort to diversify our overall loan portfolio and increase the overall yield
earned on our loans. We also originate for sale and sell the majority of the
fixed-rate one- to four-family residential real estate loans that we originate
with terms of greater than 10 years, on both a servicing-retained and servicing-released,
limited or no recourse basis, while retaining shorter-term fixed-rate and generally
all adjustable-rate one- to four-family residential real estate loans in order
to manage the duration and time to repricing of our loan portfolio. Loans are
sold primarily to FHLB-Cincinnati, Freddie Mac or to private sector third party
buyers.